Category Archives: Living Life

We wanted to post something today for all the gay, bi, and questioning sports-minded guys that read BornLikeThis. There's so many guys that don't live a stereotypic gay life, but because our schools, sports organizations, and communities aren't always gay-friendly, it's hard for athletes to buck the norm and be fully, openly who they are. Part of the work ahead is to change how sports, fraternities, and schools see and value gay-identifying people. Part of the work is building ourselves up so that we can be up to the challenge of coming out, whenever we choose to do it. To reach that second goal, here are some resources for inspiration or to find support. You will feel a lot less alone after spending some time with these websites.
OutSports: OutSports is an online magazine and community site about gay athletes and athletics. They cover national sports, Olympic sports (you must check out diver Matt Mitcham!), hot straight athletes, opinion pieces, and personal stories from GLBT athletes on their struggles with coming out and coming into their own. There are blogs, podcasts, photo galleries, member profiles, and forums to take in.
GLSEN: This organization works hard at bringing progress to schools, advocating for ...

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A second class citizen is defined as: a person whose rights and opportunities are treated as less important than those of other people in the same society. It’s also the name of Ryan James Yezak’s upcoming documentary that, according to the Kickstarter page, will explore “the many areas in which gays, lesbians & bisexuals” are discriminated against within the United States.
What should we expect?
At this point, I’d be shocked if you hadn’t seen the viral video (above) that was released on Martin Luther King Day. This beautifully assembled video gained one million views within the first 24 hours and the campaign, which originally had a goal of collecting $50,000, has raised three-fold that - $153,500 at the posting of this article.
To say that this campaign was a success may be the biggest understatement of the century.
But fame and notoriety inevitably brings its fair share of criticisms. Within hours of the viral video’s release, activists were already calling into question if Second Class Citizens would be representative of the entire movement, due the video’s lack of queer women, people of color and trans folk.
It was not Yezak’s intent to exclude queer women or people of color from the video. “I ...